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Government Scholarships for SCs, STs and OBCs to Pursue Higher Studies in India and Abroad
The focus on affirmative action policies in the popular discourse often zeros down to reservations. Currently, reservations are the strongest form of affirmative action which need to be vehemently …
Remembering Mariamma Chedathy – Dalit Folk Artist From Kerala
Author – Sheeja Radhakrishnan,
Introduction
Mariamma John – better known as Mariamma Chedathy – was a well known Dalit folk artist in Kerala. Mariamma Chetathi who worked in a college as a sweepe…
The Dalit Panthers and the Black Panthers – Brief historical backgrounds of two revolutionary movements
Author – Umang Kumar
In 2017, a premier institute for African-American history and culture based in New York, the Schomburg Center, held an exhibition titled “Black Power.” The exhibition docum…
ACDA welcomes California’s action against Cisco Systems Inc on Caste discrimination
This is a great precedent set by Californian regulators legal action against Cisco Systems Inc., that is accused of not protecting an employee subjected to Caste discrimination by two other members…
An Armchair Bahujan Review of Banias Talking Caste
An Introduction
Ever since the early days of Indology patronizingly nurtured under the colonial gaze, we have seen countless Savarna attempts to infer, interpret, dialogue and report on Bahujan …
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[Poem] He, the Untouchable (Sacrifice of Centuries)
He, the Untouchable
(Sacrifice of Centuries)
He sat there looking into space,
Expressionless,
He did not dare to look at anything specific
Lest he be misunderstood for being arrogant,
…
Caste and Nationalism
Author – Sarthak Mehra
“India is a peculiar country and her nationalists and patriots are a peculiar people. A patriot and a nationalist in India is one who sees with open eyes his fellow men tr…
Manu Must Fall But Who Should Strike The First Blow? Brahmin.
After the slave trader Edward Colston was rolled into the harbour in Bristol, the United Kingdom, at the beginning of the June, there has appeared a few articles about the long-lasting demand that …
How Twitter Got Blindsided By India’s Still-toxic Caste System
Authors – Hari Bapuji and Snehanjali Chrispal
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s first visit to India had been going so well. He got to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi (an avid Tweeter with 44.5 mill…
India – A Home of Caste Persecution
Author – Kapilendra Das
Architect of the constitution of India Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: quotes “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c…
Dalits – The Victims of Unmarriageability
The Honourable Madras High Court’s recent verdict in the Udumalpet Shankar murder case is bound to disturb the anti-caste workers in Tamil Nadu. The Court has acquitted the prime accused citing the…
Depression! Educational Institutions Have Become Slaughterhouses For Dalits
I shall be satisfied if I make the Hindus realize that they are the sick men of India, and that their sickness is causing danger to the health and happiness of other Indians. – Dr Ambedkar in The A…
An Ambedkarite’s Quest to Reach Blacks – Barrister Khobragade’s Letter to Marotrao Kamble
Recently, the co-author of this article (Dipankar Kamble) found an interesting letter sent by Barrister Khobragade to his grandfather Marotrao Kamble on 30th October 1965 from Atlanta, Georgia. To …
Why Do Scheduled Caste And Scheduled Tribes Need Reparation And Not Just Reservations?
As the movement for the Black Rights intensifies, the demands for the reparation has taken hold of the activists throughout the USA. Some of the states in the USA also started to make policies for …
How Caste, Nepotism, and Bollywood are Interlinked
Bollywood too is an Agrahara. Caste and then Nepotism is the criteria for recruiting actors. The “mainstream” actors and directors are overwhelmingly Upper Castes (UC). Even the so-called struggler…